The Sun. — London, England, 1826-02-15 00:00:00

PRICE Of STOCKS THIS fink Stock 196 1 per Cent. Red. 751 6 54 6 Si 3 per Cent. C ons . Nil 5 4 41 1i pt! Cent. Ditto Red B3 ii 4 on. Cent. New 94 pi Bank long .-tnn. .13 11-16 India Stock Ditto Bond , , l6 10 18 di.. south Sea Stuck PRICES 01? FOREIGN Anotrian Ilds, 5 per cent.— Brarilian This 1u - r. Scrip ituaraos Ayres Bds CllMan, Bds, 6 per cent Colombian llils Do. 1824 41 40i 1 39 42 391 Danish, 6 per cent. ' 5 Do. 1823 Greek llds Do. 1825 Onetimela Mexican lids Do. 1825 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills 1000!. 14d. 3 dis par Ditto 5001. lid—. I pm. 2 dis. Ditto Small lid. 1 pm. 2 dis. Ditto Advertised Bard( Air Acct.' India for .Aect. Cinis, for Acct. 744 34i 39 41 NM AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Scrip Neapolitan, ta24 Neapolitan Scrip Peruvian Bonds Do. Scrip Portuguese Bonds Prtuotiaii, 5 per cent. Ditto New — It usaian. New, 5 p. et. Spanish 1021, 5 P. c. 9 8i 0 lli 9 --- 1823 sj French Itentes, .sp. c. 95f. 25c. - Exchange ... 251. 65c. 3p. c. -..--- Exchange PRIM of,• 811AUES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Arzlo.Mexican Mining Company .... Pasco Peruvian Alining Company Nese United Mexican Mining Company Iron and Coal Mining Company Per Sloe? 10113 ram& OP litl7lll STOCKA, FEU. D. Balk Stock ... .. ...... 2t6f 6 Mining Company 90T. Deb. 3i per Cent. ... 901 St. Patrick Insurance—Li dia. 4 pet cent. New do. 97i National ditto Goy. Stock, 3i per ct. 88 9j I/ ; Hibernian Bank .1i dis. Console 3 percent. Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock Royal Irish Mining... a i pm. Ditto Loan, 4 per cent. Mew Ditto, 6 per cent. ... Hibernian Gas Company r 0 tt M .11 1.5. nottenhurgh liamlmrgit - America Axtuvrm. Dirv. 111011 WATER AT I.ONDON 111111)(4: '111.1001titt)W. Morning, 13 utinutee after 8.1 Evening, 4 minutes after 8. Till SUN. SOLEM 9111.1 1)10ERE FALSUM JUDEAT? LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15. MC The EMU* of ye,terday quotes the closing prices of Renter on Monday, for the fives 071. 40c. ; for the three: 63f. 70c. 3fir.o, Dm:. I. It appears that the itfol inks decline all contest with Ibrahim Pacha. Colocotroni, it is said, remains tranquilly in the vil lages of the Canton of Caritene. Pelikias and Constantine Marontichali, who passed over to Spezzia when it was thought to be menaced by the Tasks, have returned to the Continent, and their troops have dispersed. The eflintsOf the Government of Napoli to induce them to repair-to Ifissolonglii, have been ineffectual. Captain Gource id also said to have given his refusal to depart. A Letter from Smyrna, dated 14th December, says that the Turkish and Grecian fleets are still lying off Miasolonghi. It is added that a slight brush had taken place be tween these fleets, in which a Turkish frigate was burnt.— Ibrahim Pacha has not been able to enter Patras, of which the 'Forks themselves isave closed the gates. 11e,,, therefore, threw himself on the shores of the Gulph of Lepanto, and ea vagcd Vostizza and Gastouni. Ile surprised Cidixhii, and put the inhabitants to the sword, and appears desirous of cutting ofT all communications with (7orinth, and the Greek Cantons which provision that place. Sr. PETERSBURGIt, JA)I. The Commission of Enquiry continues its labors, but has not yet come to any decision with regard to the offenders. The Archduke Ferdinand d'Este and his numerous suite was expected on the 30th. 'tranquillity reigned throughout the capital. The (hand Duke Constantine was still at Warsaw. The Allg►emeine Zeitung received this morn lag, has nothing of any interest whatever. We nevertheless cannot but refer to the last para graph of our extracts, which gives an account of the execution of FRANCON!, a murderer, and the manner in which that execution was performed. We should have thought the 19th century was not a time for the revival of a practice revolting to the feelings, and which had been most pro perly long since suffered fall into disuse : ROME, Jax. 26. Notwithstanding the continued cold,..which has made Reim tour's Thermometer full 3 deg. below Zero, the amusements of the Carnival go on with the same spirit, and are rendered par ticularly attractive by the splendid hospitality of the Ambas sador of France and Portugal (Conde" de Funchal), and of the Duke of Braciano (Torlonia.) Several English families also give great balls. David Wilkie, the painter, and Signora Cant- Lani, equally attract the attention of the public in the midst of their festivities. The latter gave, on the 20th, a concert in the Theatre della Valle, in which she gave new proofs of her extra ordinary talent, but was not received with the same enthusiasm :stun former occasions. It must be confessed, however, that instrumental music is at a very low ebb in Rome, and that the patience of an eminent singer is continually put to the rack by an orchestra which is never in time or tune. • Rosa Mariana continues to excite general admiration in the Opera of Semiramis, in the Theatre Fordinone, bitter voice and pure taste. It is a pity she stands alone in the opera; all the other performers are bast. Very salutary reforms have been made in the hospitals at. Rome; they arc placed under the same system, and under the superintendence of a General Board, which makes its reports immediately to the Sovereign. By this means the revenues of those establishments, soineof which are very richly endowed, will be no longer frittered away. The number of young men Who have been arrested for offences against good manners is 26. Five murders out of private revenge have lately been com- .One of them gave occasion to a characteristic ex T res. sion of the a ncient Roman spirit. When the g e n s -d'armes arrested the murderer, who was attempting to keep back part of his bowels which were in danger of falling out through a bread wound inilicted with a knife, lie willingly suffered lam. ,self to be taken, and said, " That was a noble combat ; M ars annself would, not have been ashamed to take part in it." Franconi, a youth 20 years of age, the murderer of the Pre iate Tregetti, was executed yesterday in the Piazzo de Popolo, in presence of an immense multitude of spectators, who filled the square end the terraces of Monte Finn). .When the sen tence of death was read to him on the 24th, iri . When evening, he Persisted, in spite of the clearest evidence, in denying the fact; ut at length he confessed it. This prompt administration of :Mace has met with general approbation, which, however, does not extend to the manner in which it was executed.— There exists an ancient law, by which the murderer of an Ecclesiastic is to be knocked down with a ham mer, on which his throat is cut, and his arms and feet separated from his body. This kind of capital punishment, which arose in th e notions of the middle ages respecting . the dignity of a Priest, had not been practised, as far as I 'maw, since the reign of Pius VI. On this occasion it was revived. Im mediately on receiving the blow with the hammer the criminal fell to the ground, apparently lifeless ; on which the execu tioners proceeded to fulfil the other parts of the sentence with a dexterity and propriety that were really remarkable. The de: Cached members were exposed ftir an hour, than put into a ' coffin and buried. It is said that five other criminals, sentenced to death, were to have been executed before the Carnival, be cause it was thought that the people would thereby be deterred from the commission of similar crimes; but it seems that his Holiness considers that this mixture of the horrible withothe comic as more likely to weaken the impression of the first. than to inspire a permanent and salutary terror.—(Angemeine Zeitung. Feb O.) Wv extract the following remarkable narrative of the escape of the steam•vessel, on board of which ►vere Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL and his Staff, from a whirlpool in the Irrowaddy, from a Calcutta Journal : A letter from Rangoon, of the kith ult. mentions that the steam vessel (with Sir Archibald Campbell and his staff on board, returning from Rangoon) was nearly lost on her way up to Promo, having unfortunately got into a whirlpool be tween Donabew and Surrawa. Through the strength of her engine she had the best part of her hull over the whirpool, but her stern having got into the vortex, she swung round and round with great violence for several minutes, and all on board, ,it is said, despaired of her getting out safely. A Mr. Ventura, who was a spectator at a small distance, in a boat, hastened towards the whirpool to save what lives he could, in case of accident. Luckily the paddles of the steam vessel were outside the verge of the vortex, and Mr. Dsrwood, the Engineer, put the greatest power of the steam to the test, which brought her off: but poor Mr. Ventura with his boat went down, and was seen no more ! We spoke yesterday of a project which it was i understood the Government had in view of ex tending relief to the llerchants by an issue of Exchequer Bills, on the credit of goods deposited with them. In answer to a question put by Mr. Nirtr.sosr, whether or no such was the fact, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he considered that such a proposition on the part of Government would be most Un wise, for the merchants having brotight the evil on themselves by ..over trading, had no right to look to the Government for relief from the consequences of their own deliberate acts. Nothing can be more 'conclusive than this argument of Mr. ROBINSON, supposing the premises on which it proceeded were altogether true ; but believing, as we most sin cerely do, that the measures of Ministers necessa rily produced what they are now pleased to call over-trading, we cannot but conceive - that howe ver wise the refusal of assistance, at such a time, and by such means might be, it is rather hard on our traders to be so severely visited for a fault not altogether their own, but which certainly was occasioned by the very Ministry who now cast it in their teeth. An attempt however will be made in some way or other to give assistance to the commerce of the country. What that way will be we leave our readers to imagine, from the following extract front the Speech of the Cu A NCELLOR of the EXCA MUER. on this point, made in the llouse last night : " If by any relief which could be administered in the money market—if by any absorption of that species of securities which were now circulating at a low rate of intertst, to be effected by the assistance of the Bank, any pressure could be removed—if the issue so created should find its way through the ordinary channels of commercial intercourse to those who stood in need of relief, that would be a triode of proceeding which, though it might not be immediately efKetual,--and lie did not pre tend that any measure he had recommended would be so,—all he could v enture to promise, even to hims e lf, from his measure, was, that It might ;Mind some slight relief,—that would be a mode of proseedirg which the Government would leave the par tits interested in it to take, without any objection. It' the B Ink would administer that species of rlief, he, as a Member of the , Government, w ou ld h ave no hesi tfition, at a future periodofthe Session, to apply to Parliament for a grant to repay it any ad. vaneca which it might eventually have occasion to make,' Mr. Husrussou's motion for the House to re solve itself into a Committee on the Navigation Laws, with a view of enabling the Government to carry into effect the stipulations of the Treaties with the Republics of the United Pro vinces of the Rio de Is Plata and Colombia, led to a short discussion on the principles of free trade lately introduced into our commercial system. Little, however, was said on this point, but with pleasure we perceive, that the bold and confident tone with which the President of the Board of Trade introduced and carried measures in the last Session was greatly sub clued, and the Hon. Gentlemen was content to give us more argument and less assertion than heretofore. We believe that it 15 now beginning to be felt that the Government have gone too far, and that the success which has attended their mea sures, has not in any degree kept pace with their wishes or intentions. On the subject, how. ever, last night under discussion, a great deal may be said on both sides ; but it appears to us that any departure from that great principle of the navigation laws, which requires goods to be imported into the United Kingdom in the ships of, and direct from, the country of produc tion, cannot be wisely departed from, unless some great and obvious benefit will result to the country from it. It may then by a question whether a Com mercial Treaty with these new Republics was of sueit !importance and value to the country .as to justify such a departure from our general system. With all due deference to the Honour. able the President of t the Board of Trade, we humbly opine that ttuas 4 4tete of the Marine of these New. Reptiblics was to England a matter of secondary consideration, and could not be taken as necessarily superinduciug such change in our navigation system, unless the question us to the value of the Treaty itself had been previously disposed of. There are not wanting political economists, who say that corn. mercial treaties are of no value whatever, seeing that every nation will (for it must) trade with that country which offers it most profit or most ad vantages ; and it would, therefore be wise in Mr. Humus!'" to say a few words on this point, in order that we .may judge how far these treaties are beneficial to the country, requiring as they do a modification of the first and chief principle of the English Navigation System. THE FUNDS. The relief solicited from Government would have come too late for the Stock market, even had Ministers acquiesced in assisting with Exchequer Bills to the extent of five millions. From Mr. II vs- KISSOWS observation last night, of the feasibility of beginning even " 10-morrore morning" to in crease the amount of Bank notes by purchasing Exchequer Bills, it was obvious that such opera. Lion would commence this day. Shortly after the Opening of the market, the Bank Brokers made their appearance, and by successive purchases, took off an amount of Exchequer Bills that brought the discount down to 3, —and from that to par. As the operation was principally in the large bills, those of 500 and 100 still remained at a discount of t. This relief comes too late for the Stock Market ; however, it may affect the Merchants'. The number of de. faulters announced yesterday was four—D. MoCATTA, S. ISRAEL, LEVY BROYUSIII, and E. J. SYMONS. Of these, the three for. mner declared themselves to have been left unprotected by an eminent Contractor for South American Loans. In the course of the afternoon, the Checks of eight different individuals were returned through time clearing House, in conse• quence of Alms, SueenA an, and STAIIBOCK'S checks having been returned, with an accompany ing intimation, that the great House in question hail not kept their engagements with them. Several of time checks so returned, were, however, subsequently marked fur payment, and only two or three stood over for arrangement. This morning, the stoppage of Messrs. B. A. GOLbsCliMtnT, and Co. was carelessly announced—the catas trophe not altogether unexpected, the shock was felt with great severity throughout the City. It appears, that speculating for a rise in South American Securities this house had pur chased to u'greatamount for time,aud the continued fall in South American Securities, left them unequal to settling their differences. According to report, the loss sustained in the English and Foreign Stock Exchatiges will be little short of 100,0001. Consols closed yesterday 74U ; after the Close were done Pt 74 f ; and this morn. ing opened 74 The sanguine expectation of relief from the operations of the Bank, drove bp the market to 753, but it was soon up• parent, that although the discount on Exchequer Bills would he reduced—the market generally speaking, would not be much improved. At one o'clock the quotation for Consuls was 74/ Account-7411 Money. Money Stork abundant, and Money scarcer than has yet been known, as well in the house, as out of doors. The Commissioners purchased their small amount of Keduced'at Bank Stock - • 1!►B. India Bonds . . 10 l 3 iii.. 3 per Cent. ILduccd . - . 3, 1 ,, per Cent. Reduced . - R 3 I. New 1 pet Cent. • 92j. FOREIGN. Every species of Fweign Security declining. In Colombian and Mexican, a further drop of 21. Colombian 1824,401—Mexican 6 per cents, 50}. Danish, 51 ; Greek (notwithstanding the bulling of a Morning Paper), sticks at 17j ; Spanish, 9 ; Russian, no quotation. PAST 2. Consols fur Money 74f1.—Ditto for Account It is confidently stated by some of the p►in eipnl merchants trading with Brazil, that orders have been sent nut for the recall of Sir CHARLES SruAirr, and that nil hopes, therefore, Are at nn end, of terminating the differences between that state and Buenos Ayres by his mediation. The Right lion. the Lotto CHANcELLon took his seat on the Woolsack last night for the first time since his late serious indisposition. His Lordship was most cordially welcorned once more to that House, of which he has been for so many years one of the most distinguished ornameitts. llis MAJtisre, with his usual munificence, has within these few days transmitted one thoutand pounds in aid of the funds for re-building St. George's Hospital. The KING is Patron and President of this Institution. •- Yesterday at twelve o'clock a meeting of tire Cabinet Ministers and several other Gentlemen, conversant with the subject of Finunce,assembled at the Earl of LIVEKPOOr.'s ittise, in Whitehall. afternoon the Go verAnotrtahlrtdeello'ectiteuctyk y Governor esterday of the Bank at tended the Earl of LivEttPool. Ullti the CHA Lou of the EXGUEQUEIt, at the Earl of Liver pool's h ouse in Whitehall. The consultation occupied near an hour. The Countess of CARNAIITUY, ive regret to state, died on Friday, at her brother's (the Earl of EGItEMONT) seat, PetwOrth, Sussex. n p er ointed corn-meter s in , Mr. Deputy An ge ll, COURT OF A LocastitN.—The LAIRD AT A YOH anti pu blic . Ai r bpuesrirnye,ss who. Mr. re Deputy held a Court of Aldermen yesterday, for the general disp atc h of trust for the City, by the Court of Common Council, at. tended, and were sworn into office. Coramissionent for the Court of Re ques ts for the months of March and April were e p r u cc t e y n il o y y appointed appointed. The Court granted licences to coal-undertakers.— The Chamberlain reported the surplus of the Orphan Fund for the quarter ending the kb January last; upon which the Court directed hint to take the requisite measures for the dis charge of the stun of 14,0001., part of the existing debt. A gentleman from the office for auditing public accounts attended with one year's account of the Orphalta' Fund, which was al lowed. The Court .agreed to petition the House of t7ommons for a Bill respecting Vantlet Creek. The Police Committee presented a report recommending the adoption of a general regulation for closing the public-houses within the city, upon which the Courf resolved that every such house should be closed at eleven o'clock at night, and directed orders to be issued accordingly. noise appeals against serving the office of constable were heard and determined. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE, THE DUKEOMIITCS LEVEE. A' Yesterday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, the'Duke of Your, as Commander-in-Chief, held a Levee at his office in the Horse Guards, which was attended by the fbllowing -.The Earl of Oxford ; Generals Gasearyne Hart, and Cockburn ; Lieutenant-Generals Sir John Doyle, Hall, and Bayley ; Major-Generals Egerton, Fraser, and about 30 others. ' A ItRIVA LS IN TOWN. The Hon. General Trevor and family, from Glynde.plaee, "Jewell Colonel and Mrs. Gage, from a tour ; E. Arbuthnot, Esq. from Newtown Hous e , Berk' ; Sir Edward Carrington, Bart. ; Captain Forbes, f r om Arundel. Sussex ; Wathen Boyd, Esq. M.P. Mrs. Boyd and family, from Rent ; Sir Edward Mostyn, Bart. front Melton Mowbray ; Mrs. Bishop and fa mily, from Berks ; Mr. Eyre and son, from York ; Rev. Dr. Bowen, tram the Isle of %Vight ; Colonel and Mts. Rodney. DEPARTURES FROM TOWN. The Marqui;olaTaTidos, — ii;rl , Voiton, Bucks • the Ron. Frederick Ponsonby, for W e ntworth House, York shire; Lord George Seymour, for Frankfort; Henry Brownlow, Esq. 'for India ; Lady Montgomery and family, for Edinburgh. DINNER PARTIES IN HIGH LIFE. Oir SUNDA T.—liis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, at Kensington Palace; Sir Joseph Copley, in George-street, Hanover-square. Ow MONDAY.—The Earl of Westmorland, in Grosvenor square ; Earl of Harrowhy, in Grosvenor-square ; and Viscount Dudley, in Park.lane ; the Countess of Tankerrille's party, in Grosvenor-square. YESTLHDAY.—IIy the Earl of Westmorland, a Cabinet dinner; Sir George Watrcnder, Bart. in Whitehall-place. The Speaker'a first Parliamentary lieve,it for the present Session, will be on Saturday next, the 18th inst. Yesterday the Princeu Sophia visited the Duke of York at his house in South Audley-street. Yesterday morning Prince Leopold left town for Clermont MISS FOOTE IN BATE!. n ATU, TussnaY, FEB. 14.—1 t having been announced that Miss heart would make her first appearance at our Theatre yesterday evening, in the character of I;etitin Hardy, great interest was excited, and the house was crowded at an early hour by one of the most fashionable and numerous audiences ever seen within its walls. bong before the curtain rose, however, there were strong marks of disapprobation from the gallery. Shouts of " Kean for ever," and other 'sentences expressive of the hard fate of that gentleman as compared with that of Miss Foote, were heard ; and cat.calls, and every other instrument of annoyance, were in requisition. The first scene of the Play went off quietly enough ; hat when Mrs. Racket (Mrs. Bailey), was, by some mistake, announced as ifri. Hardy, a general opinion prevailed that Miss Foote was about to make her appearance. Accordingly, when Mrs. B. advanced on the stage, a deafening clamour of applause, mingled with disapprobation, was set up. The mistake was, however, soon found out, and a general laugh excited in consequence. At length the important moment arrived when Miss 'Foote was to brave the ordeal of a Bath audience. She entered, and the very roof immediately echoed with the plaudits and disapprobation of the audience. It was evident, however, that her friends formed the majority, although those ofan oppo. site character were neither mild in their behaviour, nor few in number. In short, the whole Play, as far as regarded Miss Foote, was mere dumb show—not a syllable was heard from her during the evening, even from the front seat of the pit. Iler friends, both in the upper boxes and pit, laboured hard, by beating with sticks, clapping their hands, &c. to overcome the unfavourable expressions, but in vain—they were warmly cx. pressed and kept u p til l last. Miss Foote turned towards the audience several tunes with imploring looks, but they were entirely disregarded by " the gods." She still, however, perse. rated, and, when the curtain was about to drop, several gentle. men rose, and continued waving their hats for some time. The object of their approbation appeared deeply affected at this, and shed tears. When she was announced to appear again this evening, in the character of Rosalind, the clamour was re. newed ; hut, after continuing only for a short time, finally ceased, and the general opinion is, that she will now proceed to fulfil the remainder of her engagement, without any further opposition. A theatrical roes of this description has not occurred in Bath for many years. INCLEDON. BILLIAMIN Cli N, the former of irtlLte SOLED° which nausea he disliked and seldom used, was a native of Fit_ Keveran, in Cornwall, and descended from a respectable family In the West of England. At an early age he was placed in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, and atuditd music under Jackson, the celebrated Composer, which situation he quitted and entered out board the Formidable man of war, of Oil guns, under the command of Captain, once Rear. Admiral Cleland. On the %Vest India station he changed his ship, and served on board the Rationnebk, of 61 guns, then commanded by Lord Harvey, where his vocal powers and sprightliness of character endeared him to the officers and men. In this ship he attracted the no. time of Admiral l'igot, Commander of the Fleet, who frequently sent for lneledon, and sang catches and glees with him and Admiral Hughes. H. returned to England in 1783, when Admiral Pigot, Lord Mulgrave, and Lon' Harvey, gave him letters of recommendation to Mi. Sheridan and the late SI r.Col man. His first appearance on the stage, was at Southampton, in Alphonse), in the Calle of Andalusia, in 1784. In the nest year he first appeared at Math as Jlclville, in florins, on the same night that Miss Brunton ! aftewarda Mrs. Merry, made her first dramatic malt in The Grecian Daughter, and his subsequent career as a singer at Vauxhall and at Covent-gar. den Theatre, is too well known to need relation. • He was for many years in the receipt of a large weekly salary throughout the season, with an over fl owing bene fi t in town, and h a d th e most pro fitable provincial engagements during the recess, but could not contrive, as most of his immediate contemporaries have done, to retire from the stage in the decline of hie with an honourable competency. A well-known rhyming theatrical critic has thus described . his singing ; Ilia voice is a tenor—a richer was ne'er Intermingled with sound, or the vagabond air ; 'Tis a wedding where melody couples with ease, It is echo's boa bouche, when she babbles to please. Incledon was an amusing, if not ises inetructive, companion, and his mods of arguing and drawing con. cl ii usitn c°rivellis nswasof t" a i most eccentric and singular nature. He married ' two wives from Bath, by the first of whom he has left children. He was of a benevolent disposition, and on hie own vocal abilities set the highest value, and could not. when turned of sixty, be brought to admit that they were so Unpaired by time as to preclude him holding a prominent situa tionat a London theatre, an d con d emne d the caprice of a pub lic to whom he was under the deepest obligations. - • MURDER OW MR. BIRD AT a R trNwtcH.---We have already noticed the arrival of the n 1 tar frigate at Graves end, having on board a man who, while serving on board a ship of war in the East Indies, confessed himself to have been concerned in the atrocious murder of Mr. Bird and his housekeeper some few years back, at Greenwich. The Tartar reached Woolwich on Saturday, and intelligence having been dispatched to the Admiralty, Mr. Bicknell, the Solicitor to the Magistrates of Greenwich, yesterday went on board the Tartar, and had an interview with the prisoner, who is heavily ironed. He stated his name to be Lovett, and to have formerly lived at Deptford; where be became acquainted with Husse.it who, it will be recollected, was executed for the merrier. lie then entered into a detail of the circumstance' attending the horrible affair, and mid, that, in addition to Hussey, he was accompanied by two other men, whose names It may at present be prudent to conceal. In describing the mime/ in which Mr. Bird had been killed, however, his story was at variance with the evidence .given on the trial of Hussey, and with the facts ascertained by t h e o ffi cers ; for he represented that Mr. Bird was murdered as he was sitting reading at his bed-side, whereas, in point of fact, the foul deed was perpe trated in the parlour, before Mr. itird hail supped. Ile also spoke of having gone with fitissey,add his other associates into the park after the crime, to divide the spoil, whereas, it is known, that every thing which was actually niissed from the house, was traced to the possession of Hussey. Under all the circumstances, it is suspected that this fellow, like others wdo have had recourse to similar tricks, lute adopted this singular mode of getting himself sent home from a foreign station. Mr. Bicknell returned to the Magistrates at Greenwich, in the course of the afternoon, and buying made his report, it was de. termineti that the case should undergo a more minute limed. prion on shore, for which purpose the officers who were em ployed in the pp rebels' ion of Hussey, have rec e i v ed di rect i ons to be in attendance. RETURN MK. KERN.---In consequence of the illiberal treatment this celebrated Actor has met with in some parts of the United States of America, a Committee of Gentlemen is now forming, to take into consideration measures for recalling him to the British Stage. Among the names already entered are several distinguished members of the theatrical profession. NEWCASTLE dr CARLISLE RAIL-ROAD. V . We have a letter per post this morning front our intelligent Correspondent at Newcastle-upon- Tyne, which' states that at a general and very numerous Meeting of the Directors of the New castle and Carlisle Itail-road Company, it was unanimously resolved to defer the applicatiOn to Parliament for a bill authorizing them to:com mence operations till the next eihuing Se4Vino. This delay—now that the subscription lists have been long filled up, and the plans and sectie,ts are understood to be Its it stat e or rea di ness our Correspondent ascribes ton high degree of discretion on the part of the Directors, who, in all probability, judge it inexpe diem to bring' before the Le g i s l a t ure so ptirtant * public 111HiStire VI hen the attention of Parliament must necessarily be directed dur. ing the peestutt short session (for . to this extent ft is measured, in high places,) to a variety of the most interesting subjects—some of them, as the currency question, country hanks, &c. most oh. viously of paramount eonsidetation at the pre. sent portentous crisis. Ultimately we should re, gard (his delay as serviceable to the grand. scheme for improving the intercourse between the eastern and western sides of the ,land in the north, becata , we think it extremely probable that the trifling opposition whieb is now shevriitz to the measure will die away before the nest meeting of Parliament. EAST INDIA-HOUSE SALLS. The following Correspondence was read yesterday at the East. India4louse Sales. The discrepancies in the last new duty act, which have tended to impede traders who have dealt larg.ely . in spices, see said to have led to th e cor r e sp on d ence, which u of considerable importance. " Office of Committee of l'rivy Council for Trade, Jan. 11. " Sir,—lt haviag been represented to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, that the tnerchants and others desirous of paying duty on pepper now in the ware houses have great difficulty in entering the same, in cont,e• quence of their not having any certain knowledge of thn places of production of the different quantities, and their Lordships being o f o pi n i on t h at a di st i nct i on of duty in ai case applied to pepper imported during a period when no di.- tinction existed, would operate as a great hardship upon the holders of such quantities as may be subject to the higher rate, of duty, I am commanded to acquaint y. u, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Ilis Majesty's Treasury, that under this v;ew of the case the Lords of this Committee are of opinion that it will in proper to allow all pepper imported ti places with the limits of the Company's charter previous to the fith instant, to be admitted to entry on payment of the duty of Is. per lb. I sin, Sir, &e. (Signed) To J. C. Herrin, Esq," " T. LACK." " Office of Committee of Privy Council tur Trade, Feb. 11. " Sir—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of. Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you for the information of the Chairman and Directors of the Last India Company, that it his been represented to their Lordships that at the time of the commencement of the Act of last Session, 6 Geo. IV. chap. 3, viz. Jan. 6, 1826, by which an increase duty was imposf,l certain cases, of several sorts of goods imported from 11 ce within the limits of the East India Company's charter, thut e were remaining in the warehouse considerable time when the lower duty was due. and for which the entries might have been passed within that time. " And I am to add, that under these circumstances, thq Lords of the Committee arc of opinion, that it will be right tA) &Word the further time of three months, or until the pleasure of Parliament can be known, for the entering of such goods at the lower duty which would have been payable upon them on or immediately before the 6th of January last, the parties giving bond to pay the higher rate of duty if Parliament shnll su /Tire. . 'I am also to state to you, that it is the intention of the Lords of this Committee to submit to Parliament such an al teration of the law in respect to spices, and scvetal other sorts of goods, the p ro d uce o f t h e places wit hin the limits of the DOC India Company's charter, as that the higher duty, whatever may be its amount, shall be chargeable only when such goods are not imported from the British possessions within th ose limits, and without a d vert i ng to the places of their production. " I am, Sir, &e. " TIrOAIAS LACK. " To Joseph Dart, Esq., Secretary, East India House." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. EPROM LLOYD'S.] Mac., Fra.l4.—Wind S.S.W. fresh breeze..—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Rockingham, Beach, from Bengal, sailed about the middle of September, from Madras, tett weeks front the Cape, and seven weeks from St. Helena ; Liverpool Packet, Netley, from Smyrna; Pallas, Browster, from Bdston ; Duke of Rent, —, from Petnarnbuen. A homeward. bound South Seaman passed through, with a flag blue and yellow quartered with the letter Bon the centre. Arrived from the River and remain, the Georgian, Warren, for Berbice ; Tickler, Wright, for.Jamsica; Brothers, &met!, for Gibraltar ; Skelton, Mathews, for Trinidad ; Dido, Krull, for Bahia ; and the lithe, Heaviside, for Rio Janeiro. Arrived the Daniel, front the South Seas. PORTSMOUTH, Fas. Id.-=Wind S.—No arrivals or Mil.. togs. • PLY mount, FEL 13.—Wind S.S.W. Eight o'Clock, blowing a gale.—Arrived the Sirens, Chase, from Virgir'a in 31 days, for Hamburg!), with loss of boats and leaky. Ilia Majesty's ship ‘Vairspite, from Portsmouth for India. Passed by the General Paltrier, with two of the Company's ships for the East Indict. Arrived from London the IVinsley,' Hale, and Bideford. Mollard, for St. Michael's ; a nd Union, Palmer, for Genoa. Put back the Mica, Ball, for Lisbon. FALMOUTH, FEB. 13.—Wind S.S.W. frill% sales • and squally.—Arrived the Camden Packet, from America, sailod from New York the lath ult., and from Halifax the lath ditto, with loud boats and other damage in a tremendous gale on the lit Inst. Sailed the Coburg, Barrett, for Trieste ; and New Frederick, Quinten, for Cadis; the latter has put hack. Put in by contrary winds the Company's ship Earl of ilalcarras, Cameron, for Bengal and China ; Morning Star, Buckland, for New South Wales ; and West Indian, Cook, for Antigua. . Lavzstroor., Fts. 111.—Arrived the Loyal Sam, Petrie ; Nile, /thermion, Petrie, and Florian, Harrison, front Charleston ; and Hero, Morris, from St. alichaerr. LONDON MARKET,, CORN EXCHANGE, Fru. 16. The wind being more moderate than of lute, several vessels have arrived with different kinds of Grain. The Wheat trade remains very heavy at Mondoy's terms. Barley, Beans, and Nan continue very dull. These is hale doing in the Oat trade at Monday's prices. Aen teaLs—Briglish Wheat, 3,800 ; Barley, 6,000 Oats, 7,400 ; Irish Oats, 1,900 qn. ; Flour, 7,900 sacks. We understand that it is the intention of the Lon CIitaNCEI.LOII to appoint Mr. ROClrtri to the tuation of Matter to the Court of Chanciry. It is warted that the other vacancy itt the Mastership is already tilled up, but the name of the fientleman appointed has not yet tran spired. Monsieur yvi eticastAux, the merchant, who was wounded in a duel with a gentleman of the name of PATTER sow, at Blackheath, on Saturday, rilittarwaht the amputation at his arm on Monday night, in ti me t o prevent niortitication, but he still yernains iu a very precarious state. SUDDEN DEVTiI.—A. respectable woman, named Williams. walking along Old-stress* uy ins, fell down in a Ht. She was earreeyed home, when she e seized with another, and very . soon Multi. on Monday even. CHA 111. g, Intuit ID deter.nined that the lents of Mr. BRAITAII4 shall not He fallow ; wc understand there is a splendid Opera in pr e p a . ration, and another Musical Drama nearly ready fer representatios, in which BitAIIAM and Miss PATort are to perform.